I too have wondered about travel. I traced my McINNES from Cullen, Banff to Edinburgh over 10 yrs. I have suspected it might have been on the drovers "roads" in horse and cart and I think it depends on the time because we can find when there was a railway but it took time for a "network" of railway to take them the length and breath of Scotland. Janet ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joy and John" <john.joy6@bigpond.com> To: "mull list" <sct-isleofmull@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2013 10:06 AM Subject: [SCT-ISLEOFMULL] Immigration to Australia > Hi Everyone, > > My McInnes family immigrated to Australia in late 1848 from Kintra. > They sailed from Plymouth on 14 September aboard the Maitland and > arrived here on the 7 January 1849. > > I am wondering if anyone can tell me how they would have got to Plymouth? > There were quite a lot of Scottish people on board this ship. > Would there have been a steamer or other sailing vessel that would have > taken them or would they have gone overland? > > I am not sure how I would go about finding out this information. > Kind regards > Joy > in Austalia > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SCT-ISLEOFMULL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in > the subject and the body of the message --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com

Its a puzzle isn't it! It would be really interesting to find out some answers. Oh to find a diary written by a family member! But that won't happen because I know they couldn't read or write! So back to the guessing game! You have done well tracing your family in their travels over ten years. Kind regards Joy > On 20 Nov 2013, at 9:55 pm, "Janet" <cilurnum@googlemail.com> wrote: > > I too have wondered about travel. I traced my McINNES from Cullen, Banff to Edinburgh > over 10 yrs. I have suspected it might have been on the drovers "roads" in horse and cart > and I think it depends on the time because we can find when there was a railway but it > took time for a "network" of railway to take them the length and breath of Scotland. > > Janet > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Joy and John" <john.joy6@bigpond.com> > To: "mull list" <sct-isleofmull@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2013 10:06 AM > Subject: [SCT-ISLEOFMULL] Immigration to Australia > > >> Hi Everyone, >> >> My McInnes family immigrated to Australia in late 1848 from Kintra. >> They sailed from Plymouth on 14 September aboard the Maitland and >> arrived here on the 7 January 1849. >> >> I am wondering if anyone can tell me how they would have got to Plymouth? >> There were quite a lot of Scottish people on board this ship. >> Would there have been a steamer or other sailing vessel that would have >> taken them or would they have gone overland? >> >> I am not sure how I would go about finding out this information. >> Kind regards >> Joy >> in Austalia >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> SCT-ISLEOFMULL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in >> the subject and the body of the message > > > --- > This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. > http://www.avast.com > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SCT-ISLEOFMULL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I was lucky that nature played a part and before arriving in Mull they had a child in Edinburgh in 1833, a difference of 10 yrs from the last child of a marriage in 1810; the benefit of the availability of certificate records. The Gaelic Society of Inverness records contain a poem about seagoing which makes reference to names that may be familiar: "RATS" And do not call at Dorlinn, There are plenty there without you. Avoid Macphail of Drumbuie Since the man has newly arrived there. Spend a night with Lady Gordon But do not go near John Stewart. You will be ferried from Bunavullin Across the Sound of Mull in bondage, And let the schoolmaster count you In case any of you are left behind. If you do not go in Martin's boat Get the fair lads of the "Phoenix2 And if none of them are about the place You will swim if neccessary. And if you make it to Salen Leave David alone since he is poor. Spend a night at the Inn And do not hesitate to take everything you can get hold of. In spite of your eating and drinking there They will have plenty after you have left. Many people are adding to their wealth It was from liquor that they made it. You will reach "Greenhill" at Gruiline Would that the Country was at peace with him: And even if you stay there for some time He will not notice it very much. When you climb Mam Clachaig See that you do not become separated from one another And descend to Kinlock Sgridain And you will get everything you need there. Spend one night in Pennyghael In the house of the old man with the spectacles, And leave nothing in the house except limpets and fishbones for him. Eat all his butter and cheese And all the white-meal and fat there. Addenda: Further information on rats and their movement in satire in Morvern is to be found in: Stewart, Reverend Alexander The Laird of Carsaig at this time was a Maclean who, like Lady Gordon of Drimnin was also involved in clearing people off the land thereby incurring the Bard's wrath. End Quote I have nothing more on the foregoing. Janet ----- Original Message ----- From: "John And Joy" <john.joy6@bigpond.com> To: <sct-isleofmull@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2013 11:12 AM Subject: [SCT-ISLEOFMULL] Immigration to Australia > Its a puzzle isn't it! > It would be really interesting to find out some answers. > Oh to find a diary written by a family member! > But that won't happen because I know they couldn't read or write! > So back to the guessing game! > You have done well tracing your family in their travels over ten years. > Kind regards > Joy > >> On 20 Nov 2013, at 9:55 pm, "Janet" <cilurnum@googlemail.com> wrote: >> >> I too have wondered about travel. I traced my McINNES from Cullen, Banff to Edinburgh >> over 10 yrs. I have suspected it might have been on the drovers "roads" in horse and >> cart >> and I think it depends on the time because we can find when there was a railway but it >> took time for a "network" of railway to take them the length and breath of Scotland. >> >> Janet --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com